معرفی
Dr. Agostina Torres is a researcher affiliated with the Professur für Pflanzenökologie (Plant Ecology Professorship) at ETH Zürich. Her current postdoctoral research focuses on understanding how climate change impacts forest plant communities in Mount Rainier National Park, USA. She employs long-term vegetation data, functional trait analysis, and ecological modeling (e.g., Joint Species Distribution Models) to study community reassembly processes along elevational gradients. Her work emphasizes the role of functional traits and historical contingencies, such as priority effects, in shaping species interactions and biodiversity dynamics.
Research Interests: Torres investigates community assembly mechanisms under environmental change, with a focus on plant communities and mutualistic networks. She integrates field experiments, observational data, and phylogenetic approaches to develop predictive frameworks for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management. Recent projects explore the temporal dimension of community dynamics, including germination phenology's influence on early assembly stages.
Labs/Teams: She collaborates with groups at ETH Zürich using comprehensive datasets on vegetation, climate, and species traits. Her work supports predictive models for anticipating biodiversity changes in response to global shifts.
